9 months

Wow, nine months! I have to admit, this last stretch of pregnancy is the worst.  I have not been feeling the greatest and I have way more bad days than good days now.  I feel like I can barely breathe, my ankles are starting to swell, I am retaining water and feel puffy, I am irritable all the time, I feel like I yell a lot, I want to cry over every little thing, I feel like eating everything in sight but once I eat I get sick and feel uncomfortable.... BUT we are finally down to 17 more days so I think I can deal with this a little longer considering I get to hold my precious little baby soon and meet him for the first time. I can't wait!

This past weekend was Memorial day weekend and I think I ate enough to last all week.  I love getting together with family but one thing that stinks is my family does not eat primal and they always go all out on the food when we have get togethers.  Being the preggo that I am, I ate and ate and ate.  In the back of my head I knew I shouldn't be eating that food and was actually upset with myself because I knew I would have to put my cheating weekend on my blog :(  I definitely paid for it because I was up sick all night last night.  My original goal was to only gain between 25-35lbs.  Well, I weighed in this morning and I am at a whopping 40lb weight gain! Did not want to gain this much with this pregnancy but I did...and I still have 2 weeks left too.  I am hoping some of the weight gain was just water weight from the bad weekend and I will lose some of that.  But if not I am not going to be too hard on myself.  I am still doing WAY better than my other two pregnancies, even though this is not where I wanted to be with this one.  I think since I only have a few more weeks of my pregnancy left, I will post picture/weight updates weekly now.

I am going to the doctor every week now.  So I had a doctor's appointment this morning.  He didn't really say much.  I have been contracting a lot and having lots of weird pains so he said he was going to check me for my next two visits to make sure I am not dilating. If I am dilating he said we will have a better idea if I am likely to go into labor early or may move the c-section up a bit.  As good as that sounds right now I am kind of hoping not to go early.  I don't want the baby to end up in the NICU like my second that was born 15 days early and it is kind of nice having it planned because we have babysitters lined up and we know who is watching the other kids. If the date gets moved I am not sure who will watch the kids when because my family has their vacation days put in already.  I am sure we will figure out something though, but it would just be nice to be able to go with the plan we have already.  But I guess when you have a baby, everything is unpredictable!